With these sentiments he retired to his own room, after the ass
had been restored to the right owners, and the priest had visited
and comforted his fair ward, who had been almost distracted with
fear. Silence no sooner prevailed again, than he crawled darkling
towards her door, and huddled himself up in an obscure corner,
from whence he might observe the ingress or egress of any human
creature. He had not long remained in this posture, when, fatigued
with this adventure and that of the preceding night, his faculties
were gradually overpowered with slumber; and, falling fast asleep,
he began to snore like a whole congregation of Presbyterians. The
Flemish beauty, hearing this discordant noise in the passage, began
to be afraid of some new alarm, and very prudently bolted her door;
so that when her lover wanted to repeat his visit he was not only
surprised and incensed at this disagreeable serenade, the author
of which he did not know; but when compelled by his passion, which
was by this time wound to the highest pitch, he ventured to approach
the entrance, he had the extreme mortification to find himself
shut out.
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